Tag Archives: Brighton Fringe 2015

Wildheart & Lyric: Wolf Meat

Wildheart & Lyric: Wolf Meat

May 28th, 2015 by

Wolf Meat is a trouser-ripping side-splitting romp through Grandma Croydon’s twisted world of sex and drugs, pinching inspiration from fairy tales like Red Riding Hood and Cinderella, and cutting them with cop dramas and enough nods and winks, theatrical asides, thigh-wobble-claps, and other shocking surprises to take the legs out from beneath a less accomplished […]

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Bucket Club Lorraine-and-Alan

Bucket Club: Lorraine and Alan

May 26th, 2015 by

For those who grow up by the coast, the sea has a mighty pull. Swimming off the jetty, watching the tide roll back across the vast, winkle studded mud flats of the Estuary. I can smell it now. If, like Lorraine, you are a Celtic mythical seal-woman, the ocean is eventually going to draw you […]

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Menagerie Bloominauschwitz

Menagerie: Bloominauschwitz

May 26th, 2015 by

Homer portrayed Odysseus as a man of outstanding wisdom and shrewdness, eloquence, courage and endurance. His wanderings and the recovery of his house and kingdom are the central themes of the Odyssey. James Joyce, in Ulysses – the novel that shifts Homer to one June day in Dublin 1904 – makes his hero Leopold Bloom a […]

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Pand 7090

Pand 7090

May 26th, 2015 by

Every good fringe deserves something wacky, and the five Dutch artists that put this show together have tried very hard to be that thing.  It’s described as part gallery, part shop and part concert. But it’s a shop with no true method of exchange, a gallery you can’t properly observe and a concert that is […]

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Buddug James Jones: Hiraeth

Buddug James Jones Collective: Hiraeth

May 26th, 2015 by

Buddug James Jones’ opening words – ‘I am not an actor, but I’m going to give it a bloody good go’ – set the tone for an eccentric and fun-packed hour of biography by this talented young company. Fortunately for everyone, co-performer Max Mackintosh is a trained actor, while David Grubb, who doesn’t speak much, […]

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